S/R-isomer, a myth? : ketamine | Torhoo darknet markets
Almost all K-vendors in my country (european) advertise R and S isomer separately.
I was in a discussion on another forum a while back where an american was hard on I was getting scammed, that there's NO WAY there's anything other than racemic on the black market, and that ALL ketamin on the black market came from legally produced veterinarian medicine. As in no underground chemist or chemfactory could produce it, and S/R super impossible.
He didn't make any sense to me, and he didn't grasp the very different markets and regulations on EU vs US. But the likes it seemed most believed him.
So how is it really?
Is S/R extremely difficult/expensive to separate?
Is most ketamine on the black market (in europe) from legal medicinal producers?
As a conclusion every pure S-ketamine has to be minimum double the price as the racemic one, if not its likely a scam.
Every crystalline "pure" S-ketamine I've ever buyed from european DNM was 'scam' because it was just racemic (optical rotation zero, proofed by a very friendly institute in a neighbouring country). On the other hand the only real S-ketamine I've got so far was from grey-market. Very expensive: in the range of good cocaine! If you are experienced with both racemic and S-ketamine you can truly distinguish both, but if you are a noob you will never notice any difference.